Job summary Working Part time : 35 hours per week An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Learning and Organisational Development team at the Countess of Chester Hospital due to an internal secondment. This role is a fixed term position until March 2025 on 35 hours as a Senior Learning and Organisational Development Manager. Job Summary The Senior Learning and Organisational Development (L&OD) Manager role leads the delivery of a high-profile, proactive and professional Learning & OD service for the Trust. The aim of the service is to improve organisational health, effectiveness and performance through developing and supporting our workforce and organisational culture. This is achieved via a programme of specialist activity that aligns with the Trusts Leadership Framework, Talent and Succession Planning strategy and the National NHS People Promises. The role includes the design and delivery of leadership development, talent management, cultural development initiatives including the embedding our values, behaviours and civility standards, team development, coaching & mentoring, a variety of staff engagement initiatives, change management, behavioural change interventions and other programmes of development activity. The post holder will be required to work autonomously to plan and prioritise their own work and identify, diagnose and plan pragmatic and tailored solutions to enable services to improve their performance and increase staff engagement. Main duties of the job • Work with the Head of Leadership, Talent and Skills to design and develop operational plans to deliver the trusts Leadership and Talent Strategies • Provide specialist expertise across all areas of Learning and Organisational Development including: appraisals, talent management, leadership development programmes, organisational culture, staff engagement, reward & recognition, team development, human dimensions of change, coaching/ mentoring and 121 support of individuals. • Effectively managing a broad range of leadership and management development activities and programmes offered by the Learning and OD team. This includes the quality of materials, developing new programmes, fast paced roll out, determining impact and reporting on progress. • Work as an internal consultant working in partnership with key senior leaders across the Trust using high level communication and influencing skills to co- create solutions, analyse and manage the feedback of complex and sometimes contentious information resulting from workstreams such as surveys and team diagnostics. • Make proposals to the Head Leadership, Talent and Skills for change projects; facilitating interventions that support change management and enable service and cultural change. • Support the cultural development of the organisation to ensure our values of Safe, Kind and Effective are demonstrated along with our behavioural standards and the Trusts Civility Charter. About us The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations: • The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds. • Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. • Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population. The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances. Job description Job responsibilities Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application. Person Specification Qualifications Essential • Educated to degree level as a minimum or equivalent experience in a related profession (OD, Education, HR, Occupational/Organisational Psychology, Sociology, Coaching) • Post Graduate Certificate in Education or relevant experience • 360 Healthcare Leadership Model Facilitator Psychometric testing/personality profiling qualification ( SDI/MBTI) Desirable • Masters level qualification • Coaching qualification Skills and Abilities Essential • Advanced level facilitation skills. • High level verbal and written communication and presentation skills • Previous experience creating educational materials